{"product_id":"the-african-ancestors-garden-history-and-memory-at-the-international-african-american-museum-hardcover","title":"The African Ancestors Garden: History and Memory at the International African American Museum - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWalter Hood\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eTonya M. Matthews\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by), \u003cb\u003eBernard E. Powers\u003c\/b\u003e (Text by (Art\/Photo Books))\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'[Walter Hood is] one of the great American landscape artists.' - Former President Joseph R. Biden\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first publication to document the International African American Museum's landscape design by Hood Design Studio, illuminating its mission and historic site\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe African Ancestors Garden \u003c\/i\u003eis the first book to be published in conjunction with the International African American Museum (IAAM) in Charleston, South Carolina. The museum's landscape design by Hood Design Studio, led by award-winning Walter Hood, exemplifies the museum's mission to reflect on its location at Gadsden's Wharf, the point at which nearly half of all enslaved Africans arrived in North America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith contributions by figures critical to the realization of the International African American Museum, this significant book presents the intensive site research and concepts that went into the distinct spaces at the museum, including an infinity reflecting pool and an ethnobotanical showcase of African plants brought to North America though that landing. Hood's design response to these historic grounds addresses memory, tragedy, and culture, a moving homage to the living Charleston community and the African diaspora at large.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHood Design Studio, led by MacArthur 'Genius' Grant-winner Walter Hood, is at the forefront of the expanding field of social activism through design, and this book allows us a detailed overview of the conceptualization and creation of a remarkable and deeply meaningful landscape, proposing a way of designing public spaces and cultural institutions that embody the African American experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWalter Hood\u003c\/b\u003e is a MacArthur Fellow and Chair of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning and Urban Design at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his designs for institutions are the gardens of the de Young Museum in San Francisco and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, and the plaza of the Broad Museum in Los Angeles. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDr. Tonya M. Matthews\u003c\/b\u003e is the President and CEO of the International African American Museum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBernard E. Powers, Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e is founding director of the Center for the Study of Slavery at the College of Charleston.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDell Upton\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Research Professor of Architectural History in the Department of Art History at UCLA. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLouise Bernard\u003c\/b\u003e is Director of the Museum of the Obama Presidential Center. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 10.8 x 8.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 10, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49781829697784,"sku":"9781580935845","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/DQVW_UvfHo9781580935845.webp?v=1783069583","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/the-african-ancestors-garden-history-and-memory-at-the-international-african-american-museum-hardcover","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}